Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES:

The accounting team, based in Eurofins’ corporate office in Luxembourg, is in charge of the accounting and reporting for the holding companies of the Eurofins Network.

The team is looking for an Accountant to participate in the accounting, reporting and financial controlling (including preparation of documents linked to audit or tax requirements) of said companies.

POSITION & OBJECTIVES:

Job description:

• Support daily accounting from A to Z for a portfolio of several entities, ensuring consistency with the Luxembourg and the Group Chart of Accounts and rules and appropriate supporting documentation
• Follow up and reconcile expense notes (including candidates’) and corporate card expenses. Maintain Nautilus Tool
• Carry out accurate and timely reporting, on a monthly basis
• Conduct inter-company reconciliation on a monthly basis, follow up overdues and answer business questions
• Support with dealing with inter-company loans and related topics (interest, FX, etc.)
• Conduct balance sheet reconciliations and follow up on intra-Luxembourg transactions
• Ensure accurate and timely local and legal reporting on a monthly, quarterly or ad-hoc basis
• Manager master data (new suppliers or customers, payment conditions, bank details update, new interco entities, etc.) in liaison with our Support Service Centres and maintain Eurofins’ electronic corporate data platform for signed legal documentation
• Provide help on statutory annual financial statements, including notes to the accounts
• Deal with ad hoc requests from the Group Accounting and Controlling team
• Deal with ad hoc requests from other Eurofins functions (compliance, treasury, legal or other financial directors)
• Conduct regular inventories (various kind of inter-companies agreements, physical assets) and reconciliations with the accounting records
• Help to define and implement enhancements to the accounting/finance processes and procedures
• Take on new entities and projects

Profile description:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in finance/accounting
• Minimum 3 years of experience in accounting
• Very structured, with strong organisational skills and the ability to manage properly monthly deadlines
• Very accurate and highly reliable
• Proactive, adaptable, and flexible
• Fast and agile learner; excited by having a diverse role
• Ability to work autonomously
• Good communication skills
• Team player who enjoys working in a small team
• Eager to work in an evolving, dynamic, and multicultural environment

Requirements:

• French (fluent written and spoken)
• English (fluent written and spoken)
• Any additional language is an asset
• Strong knowledge of accounting software.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.